From San Francisco Bike Party With Love

SF Bike Party July 2013 from Kristin Tieche on Vimeo.

Here's a mini-film composed of a few shots I took at the last SF Bike Party.

Music: Nelly - Ride With Me

More good times comin' your way this Friday, August 2nd.

bonjour le tour!

Joyeux lundi à tous!

boys y bikes y coffee [à la Meli]

One of the best things about riding a bike around town is getting to check out other people's bikes (let's call it OPB, yeah, you know me). I met Zack in front of Whole Foods in SoMa last week.



Here's his cool bike. There's a special name for this kind of bike. He said you can pedal backwards and forwards to go. I can't remember the name anymore. I just remember Zack.



And then I went for un cafecito served by Gabe.



If you haven't heard, Saint Frank is a new pop-up coffee bar at the PUBLIC Bikes shop in South Park. This is Kevin, the owner.



Benjamin makes a mean cappuccino. First time customers get a free cuppa.



Enjoy your weekend, y'all.

prioritize the bicycle and they will ride

The Big Picture - 01 - Top 10 Bicycle-Friendly Design Elements in Copenhagen from Copenhagenize on Vimeo.

"If you build it, they will come."

Watch Copenhagenize's point by point guide to how to design a modern bicycle city.

get your robot on

Some more pics from the SF Bike Party! Theme = Robot Revolution.

Revolution is here

Ride it.

Ride on.

And God said, "Let there be Fog."

And there was fog.

Adrift from Simon Christen on Vimeo.

Another reason to love where I'm from. More familiar scenes of summer in San Francisco. Ride on.

i don't take it for granted

I was born at the corner of Geary and 6th Avenue in San Francisco. I grew up in the town of Mill Valley, at the foot of Mt. Tamalpais. When I got my independence, I moved around a bit, but eventually, I came back to from whence I came.



I don't take my life, or my luck of geography, for granted. Not one day.



That I get to call this place "home" seems surreal.



It never gets old, no matter how many times in your life you revisit it. It's fresh. It's inspiring. It's...



so close.



So I thank God, The Universe, Allah, Gaia, Krishna for letting me be born here, and letting me EXPERIENCE life whenever I feel the need.



Thanks for showing me the [wu] wei.

Happy Day of Love Everlasting to All

Today, judy b. and I took a ride to the Castro to celebrate the failure of DOMA and the legalization of gay marriage in California.



It was a glorious day. Enjoy the photos, the San Francisco energy and share in the love.



Lotsa happy boys and girls everywhere today!

vamos al parque

A couple Giants fans en bici! They asked me the way to bike parking, so I gather it was their inaugural ride to the game! I hope to run into these two zealots of the Orange & Black again at a game soon.

And man, my boys need some help... still a lot of baseball left. #notpanicking

c'est la vie

Sometimes life throws you curves.



You gotta know where to turn.

Ride on.

why i ride a bike - reason #3 - keeps you in shape!

A picture is worth a thousand words...



Even if you're just riding for transportation, you are getting a workout. My commute to and from work gets my blood pumping for at least 60 minutes/5 days a week. And when you go out on weekends, you burn off a little of your evening's indulgences on your way back home.

Biking gives you some basic fitness that you won't get by driving a car or taking the bus. Just remember, you won't have calves like this by sitting on your ass.



However far you want to push it is purely up to you.

why i ride a bike - reason # 2 - it's fun!

Whether you are taking part in a group social ride, like last weekend's Clitoral Mass...





or simply going from point A to point B...



or out taking a joy ride...



taking your bike there proves that getting there is half the fun!





You see, when you choose to ride a bike for transportation or recreation, you can ride with your friends...





or you might just run into pals in the bike lane...



or make new friends!



And thanks to social media, you connect with friends around the world who love their bikes as much as you do.



What's more, riding your bike is not just a great way to have fun with friends.



The exhilaration you feel also transports you back to being a kid again.



So what are you waiting for? It's time to enjoy your summer!



And if you're not convinced yet, here are some more reasons to ride your bike, from Iva Jean.

Little Riders

These are some real Texas cowboys, straight out of Austin.   Thank you Amberleigh for the photo.

Cyclo Femme - Guest Post by April Streeter

ride together - May 12, 2013

Last year was the first CycloFemme ride, on May 13, 2012. As soon as I heard that someone was organizing a 'national' ride for women I got interested. But I wondered what kind of ride it might be - lycra and toe-clips? Cyclocross sweat and mud? Pretty bikes and pretty outfits?

Well, it turned out it was all three and more. Sarai Snyder, CycloFemme's organizer, had the great idea not to try to prescribe a specific ride - instead she just wanted to facilitate getting everyone to plan and start rides on the same day. That was enough for me, and with help from a lot of friends, we did a Portland CycloFemme ride.

Sarai must have done something right (think excellent temporary tattoos, and in the case of Portland's ride, funky blue balloons with the sleek CycloFemme logo and the cake you see above) because 163 separate rides took place, in 14 countries.

Our ride in Portland was actually a trio of rides that came together for a one-mile parade. Women on Wheels riders showed up, Sorella Forte riders did a 30-mile ride to the ride, and a score of family riders from Kidical Mass helped make our parade on Sunday Parkways car-free streets fun and multi-culti friendly.

California currently is the state with the most rides registered for this year's May 12, 2013 ride. Strangely there's no San Francisco ride yet registered. When I co-organized last year's CycloFemme PDX ride I was a little anxious, and it WAS a little chaotic for me on the day of the ride. I forgot to enjoy the cake and I was so busy helping people with the temporary tattoos that I actually missed the ride, only watching as the beautiful bikes headed out in the May sunshine.

But the warm feeling of seeing so many women - and so many different types of riders - pull together for a bike ride that really just celebrates that women do bike - has had a positive lasting effect. So register a ride - even if it's just you and a friend.

(Contact me for tips for organizing - and thanks to Kristin for letting me guest post april.streeter@gmail.com)